Category: Articles on Writing
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In spite of a bit of uphill-ery, I got there. 1281 words, 62,753 total
And I managed along the way to muddy my feet on Vikings, evolutionary biology, predator psychology, and something that looks like next Monday it could traipse into the realm of the steamy near-miss. I also had a lot of wicked fun, got in a couple of funny one-liners, and at the end of the day…
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Oh, such wicked fun today! 1257 words, and 44,099 total.
I have only the vaguest idea of where the story is going right now. I’m a long way off of the planned outline, writing into the dark, following the conflict, and asking always, “What could go wrong?” “What could go wrong?” is the right question for this section, for this book, for the aftermath of…
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Desktop Curtain, from Many Tricks: My single favorite Mac app
Big fan that I am of GSD (getting shit done), I’ve found things over the years that have made GSD easier. The screenshots below are Before and After on a TINY section of my very large desktop this morning. The white bar on the left isn’t neatness. It’s Scrivener below a 30-word PACTS Sentence that…
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Today — the tedium of drudge work
I had to move all the line-for-scene Sentences for books four and five into their Scrivener sections — the pre-built thirty-chapter manuscripts I set up for all five books when I started this project. So now the books are outlined, the manuscripts are ready to go… And Monday I’ll get back to the words. It…
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Today I studied the map, asked WHY… made good progress on OUTLINE 5… figured out why YESTERDAY crashed…
Can’t say today was easy. I walked in circles (literally) because pacing helps me generate ideas, talked to myself out loud to ask important questions, looked at my map and drew a few circles on it to identify story issues… And then I went back to the line-for-scene outline and managed to come up with…
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Business Only day: No words, no progress…
Today turned, though no fault of its own, into a necessary business day. Writing fiction is a business… but so is life. And from time to time, the ‘life’ stuff has to come first. And I’d let a lot of that pile up, and when you do that, you then have to deal with the…